Quotes with life-form

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  • Robert Byrne The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Calvin Trillin The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • John Mortimer The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Bill Watterson The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Sherlock Holmes The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • W. M. Lewis The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
    W. M. Lewis
     
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  • Bill Copeland The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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  • Louis Kronenberger The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Bill Watterson The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Nelson Mandela There is no passion to be found in playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
    Source: My Best Short Stories (2014) 75
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bruce Lipton There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Aristotle Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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